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Your Favorite Marathi Books Now On A Digital Platform: Will It Increase The Popularity Of The Local Language?

by Paul Joseph December 29, 2011 Featured

Major Marathi publication houses will jointly launch MarathiReader.com . Eight publishers, including big names like Popular Prakashan, Mauj Prakashan, and Continental Prakashan which collectively hold the largest treasure trove of Marathi literature, have finally realized & decided to adopt the digital route for distribution of rare & popular books

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25% Failure Rate For IRCTC Transactions [March 2011 Report]

by Paul Joseph May 6, 2011 Featured

IRCTC is India’s largest ecommerce site and the site contributes ~14% to Indian railways revenue. The failure rate for IRCTC transactions hovers around 25% and among the credit/debit cards, ICICI turns out to be the best performer (79.55% success rate), followed by HDFC. In total, IRCTC witnessed 11530099 transactions out of which 8652518 were successful (i.e

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TiE Networking Event – ‘E-commerce Fundas’ – 25th April 2011

by Paul Joseph April 19, 2011 Featured

With ever more and growing numbers of connected people (especially on  the mobile), greater penetration of credit cards, an entire new  generation of consumers, the first (and very successful) Nasdaq IPO of an Indian eCommerce company in Makemytrip, the customer traction that several ecommerce startups are demonstrating, the incredible entrepreneurial energy and VC funding activity

Tagged as: credit-cards, ecommerce, entire-new, incredible, indian, mobile, nasdaq, the-customer, the-first, the-incredible

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From Collars To Buttons – Tailor Your Own Shirt Online At Peprismine

by Paul Joseph April 8, 2011 Featured

Ever taken your girl to a boutique and wondered on how they could be so particular about every thread and every sequin that goes into their apparel? Ever wondered if you could change only the sleeves of that fantastic shirt you window shopped

Tagged as: apparel, costs-as-much, customize-every, customized, developed, ecommerce, girl, indian-startups, measurement, perpismine, shirts, take-the-risk, their-apparel

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From Local Deals To Selling Products – Group Buying Pivoting Already?

by Paul Joseph April 6, 2011 Featured

In my last coverage about group buying sites I mentioned the players that have not entered the electronics and products space as “not given up yet”. To make it a little more polite I should have said “not Pivoted yet”.

Tagged as: city, ecommerce, electronics, fight, group buying, groupon, india, pivoting, retail, user, work

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10 Examples of Predictability That Businesses Stand For

by Paul Joseph February 9, 2011 Featured

A few days back I wrote an article – What Separates Startup Men from Poys [The P word] , that essentially discussed one the most important element in a product – i.e. predictability of functionality/usage and importantly, the process behind building predictability in a system. In this article, I am sharing some of the predictable/unpredictable examples that I have come across

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Best of the Week – MNP Live, $35 Tablet Launch Delayed [and more]

by Paul Joseph January 23, 2011 Featured

Events scheduled for this week: a.

Tagged as: ecommerce, indian, mobile, project, recap, social, traffic, yahoo

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InfiBeam To Power Rural e-commerce In Gujarat: Rs.2000Cr Investment

by Paul Joseph January 13, 2011 Featured

Ahmedabad based E-commerce startup InfiBeam is trying to do everything possible on earth that can be associated with a web company.

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2010–The ‘Dabangg’ Year for Indian Internet Startups

by Paul Joseph December 20, 2010 Featured

Internet is not happening in India. eCommerce isn’t able to grow beyond certain categories

Tagged as: business, ecommerce, financial, india, indian, industry, numbers

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101 on Email Marketing [Part I/Introduction]

by Paul Joseph December 7, 2010 Featured

[Guest article by Gitanjali of Contactart.in . She will carry articles related to email marketing on Pi and do share your observations/experience with email marketing.] Online stores and ecommerce transactions are increasing steadily in India

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